This has been a pretty hectic week, as it turns out. So, today’s ditty is another non-traditional one; sorry. This one is actually from over a year ago, from one of my composition classes. It’s kind of a musical theater/art piece setting of The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein. Today I finally got around to making the demo of the first section. All the instruments are kind of cheap and fake-sounding, but they get the point across.
Special treat! Today’s ditty is a full-length song! I’d like to thank Vassar College for giving me the fodder for this spritely work.
Welcome to day 3 of cellphone week! Today, we’ve got a lovely little number that can be used for incoming text messages. This one is dedicated to the fine people of D4, for obvious reasons.
Also, just a note: tomorrow’s ditty may not, in fact, be a ditty. I’m putting the finishing touches on a new full-length song, and will probably just push that out tomorrow. I think it’s a better deal, anyway.
In keeping with the cellphone theme, this is a little cellphone voicemail greeting I just may use (but only to my friends).
Welcome to the Ditty a Day cellphone series, in which the ditties are ringtones and/or voicemail messages. Today, I taught myself how to make the vocoder behave. Can’t say it’s my most inspired work, but it did its job.
Download the MP3 for use as a ringtone.
Or, if you have an iPhone, download the ringtone version here.
[EDIT: Ironically, that iPhone link will apparently not work in Safari. Firefox has no problems with a Save As, but I've also included the mp3 download now, if all that is too much trouble.]
Happy Birthday, Liz!
This is a little nod to a weird suburban problem that we all seem to have. I’m not entirely satisfied with the rhymes, but such is life when you try to do one of these a day.
Hope I don’t get killed for this one!
